Around the world, writes summer and now continuing MEM student blogger Maria Prebble, women’s capacity to adapt to climate change is challenged by barriers to knowledge access and limited participation in decision-making. Maria tackles this immense (and often unstated) difficulty in sustainable development in her new blog. In her first post, she takes a look at local knowledge in rural African communities, and how gender divisions and illiteracy rates can act as a barrier to female empowerment and the most effective climate adaptation responses.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:57:24 +0000
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